Report: LGBT Americans more likely to live in poverty

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

Report: LGBT Americans more likely to live in poverty (http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/09/29/report-lgbt-americans-likely-live-poverty/)

[trickster]

Yeah, I believe it. Everyone I know in my family and all my friends who identify as LGBT are poor. Either because they can't get jobs (it may not be legal for them to fire or reject someone because they're LGBT in some places, but they find other reasons) or because their families won't help them out until they 'stop being LGBT'. LGBT Americans of color get hit by a double dose of homophobia/transphobia, and racism. And a few years ago, getting health care was horrible. My brother straight up got denied everywhere he applied because he was transgender.

I think the fact that some companies are getting a pass because of their 'religious beliefs' is BS. People have always tried to use their 'religious beliefs' to slow down or stop progress. 'Religious beliefs' were used to justify slavery, racism, and the oppression of women. And I assume most of these 'religious beliefs' are Christian in nature. I know the Bible says 'don't be gay' (or at least, that's how a lot of Christians interpret it). To my knowledge, it doesn't say anything forbidding someone to hire LGBT folk...

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

This is nothing new, unfortunately. It amuses me - in a pretty morbid sense - that workerist "socialists" can still stereotype gay people as rich in the face of such data, but then again, when has real life stopped workerists? Not to mention the link between homophobia and capitalism - how beneficial it is for capitalists that gender norms be enforced (so that the proletariat is reproduced efficiently) and that there are precarious strata on the bottom of the proletariat.

[cyu]

This is nothing new

Yep, basically any group the American Republican Party opposes is more likely to live in poverty. Not sure if it's the cause, the effect, or a combination...

Maybe the wealth and power that the Republican Party is able to bring to bear, is enough such that it can drive its opposition into poverty.

Maybe the Republican Party selectively chooses its victims by finding the most marginalized, powerless, and least able to retaliate.